Congratulations to Sanne Van Den Berg, who defended her PhD thesis on “Narratives of Death in Tacitus’ Annals” successfully and was approved with no corrections. By focusing attention on a wide range of death scenes – from murders to suicides – she shed new light on the political dynamics of the text. Her study has…
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Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas
Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas, who successfuly defended his PhD. Pablo’s dissertation, Tacitus and the Representation of the Legal World in the Annals, is the first systematic study of the Roman historian Tacitus’ representation of the law in his Annals. Building on the recent growth of ‘law and literature’ approaches to English literature and Latin poetry, Pablo…
Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco
Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco, who successfully defended her viva on 15 February! Carolyn’s dissertation, “The ‘Christianisation’ of the Iberian Peninsula: Christian Space Creation by Late Roman and Visigothic Elites from the Fourth to the Eighth Century CE” analysed the Christianisation of the peninsula by focusing on the creation of Christian spaces over a long…
Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach
Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach, who successfully completed his PhD. In ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase’ Ollie demonstrates the enormous rewards of reading against each other two texts which although by the same author have tended to be considered in isolation from each other. Nonnus of Panopolis dates to the 5th century…
Congratulations to Pawel Borowski
Congratulations to Pawel Borowski, who successfully defended his PhD and passed without corrections. Pawel’s thesis Civic Communities as Actors in the Western Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian highlights the importance of civic communities (civitates) – largely autonomous polities with state-like attributes – in the Western Roman Empire, combining the study of inscriptions with an analytical framework drawing on the…
Congratulations to Bart Danon
Congratulations to Bart Danon who passed his PhD viva recently. His thesis is entitled ‘Wealth, rank and officeholding in Roman Italy: a quantitative study’. Bart’s research challenges the common approach to the study of the Roman economy which uses socio-political standing (rank) as a proxy for economic standing (wealth). His thesis presents a new reconstruction…
Congratulations to Briana King
Congratulations to Briana King on the successful defence of her PhD thesis, titled “Mistress of the East, Goddess of the West: Aphrodite and the Development of Ancient Greek Erotica”
Congratulations to Mads Ortving Lindholmer
Congratulations to Mads Ortving Lindholmer who passed his PhD viva recently. His thesis is entitled “Rituals of Power: The Roman Imperial Admission from the Severans to the Fourth Century”. Mads explored the ‘imperial admission’ (the so-called salutatio and adoratio) from the Severans to Constantine. Traditionally, this ritual had been seen as an unimportant and burdensome…
PhD applications for 2021 entry
Applications for PhD studies in Classics at the University of St Andrews are now open for 2021 entry. There are two deadlines for those applying for funding: Monday 30 November 2020, 12 noon – for students wishing to be considered for studentships awarded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). These include maintenance, fees at…
Congratulations to Douglas Forsyth
Congratulations to Douglas Forsyth who passed his Phd viva recently. His thesis is entitled “Economic Development in the Cycladic Islands 1000-480 BCE”. Doug took an original approach to the Cyclades in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age to understand levels of connectivity and reasons for the development of certain cities and islands in advance…
Congratulations to Hallvard Indgjerd
Congratulations to Hallvard Indgjerd on passing his PhD! His thesis is entitled “Settlement and Contact on Late Roman and Early Byzantine South Naxos, Keros and Kato Kouphonisi”. Hallvard works on island settlement and connectivity in the Cyclades during the Late Roman and Early Medieval period. Using survey pottery from southern Naxos and the Lesser Cyclades,…
Congratulations to Jackie Whalen
Congratulations to Jackie Whalen on passing her PhD! Jackie’s thesis is entitled ‘The Topography of Cult in Archaic and Classical Sparta: an archaeological approach to Spartan society’.
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